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The “suwar al-kawakib" or the Book of Fixed Stars is a 10th century astronomical Arabic text, authored by the famed scholar Abd-al Rahman al-Sufi in the year 964 AD. It was produced by the powerful Greco-Arabic translation movement, which emanated in Baghdad and sought to translate secular Greek classical texts and the works of Hellenistic scholars into Arabic. The syncretic traditions of Western Asia were once culturally aligned owing to the dominance of Islam over the medieval world and the access to the Silk Road. Now, this has prompted Uzbekistan to present the “first true-to-the-original facsimile copy of the manuscript of Images of the Fixed Stars” reports Euronews. Uzbekistan was at the heart of the ancient Silk Road. Its central